Inset Straight Skeleton
This add-on makes ’inset polygons’, which you get when you advance the edges of the polygon inwards at a constant rate. Sometimes when you do that, an advancing edge shrinks to nothing, or edges hit an advancing concave corner. The algorithm tries to do the right thing when this happens: one or more new polygons may form at that point, and insetting can continue inside those new polygons.
You can either inset a single polygon or you can treat groups of polygons connected together as a single region, forming a complicated polygon (that may include holes) to be insetted as a unit.
In addition to insetting, it is often useful to raise or lower the inset polygon (perpendicular to the inset plane), so a parameter to do that is included also.
Activation
Open Blender and go to Preferences then the Add-ons tab.
Click Mesh then Inset Straight Skeleton to enable the script.
Description
Enter mesh Edit Mode on a mesh object, and select one or more faces.
- Scale
- Percent
Means that amounts are a percentage of the amount for a full inset.
- Absolute
Means that the amounts are in units.
- Amount
The distance to move the edges inward.
- Height
The distance to move the inset polygons upward.
- Region
If checked, treat all selected faces as a region to be inset, otherwise inset each face individually.
- Quadrangulate
Todo.
Technical Details
The method used is described on the Straight Skeleton Wikipedia page. Consider this starting polygonal region:
As the edges move inward at a constant speed, two kinds of events can happen. One is that an advancing corner can hit an advancing edge, as seen on the right part of this picture:
When this happens, the inset polygon splits into two.
The other is that an advancing edge can shrink to a point. When the whole process continues until the end, you get something like this:
One cool thing about this algorithm is that if you move upwards or downwards (perpendicular to the inset plane) at a constant speed, you form ’roofs’ with a fixed pitch.
Katso myös
Please see the old Wiki for the archived original docs.
Reference
- Category
Mesh
- Description
Make an inset inside selection using straight skeleton algorithm.
- Location
3D Viewport operator
- File
mesh_inset folder
- Author
Howard Trickey
- License
GPL
- Note
This add-on is bundled with Blender.